We have won a bid to undertake a Defra-funded research project investigating the development of models for farmer and land manager behaviours and decision-making. The UK’s exit from the European Union, and subsequent withdrawal from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), will give the UK the ability to design and implement [...]
Working on behalf of Defra, we have completed an analysis of consultation responses on proposals to make biodiversity net gain a requirement for new developments. The proposals come in the context of the UK Government’s ambition to embed the principle of ‘environmental net gain’ into development, as set out in [...]
The London Borough of Waltham Forest has recently awarded its eight-year, £112 million Neighbourhoods Services Contract to Urbaser Ltd. We have been working with the council from the beginning of the process in July 2017, when we carried out a Commissioning Options Analysis on the waste collection, grounds maintenance and [...]
A new Eunomia report reveals how the UK consistently overestimates how much of the plastic packaging waste it produces gets recycled. Official statistics say that in 2015 UK households and businesses produced 2.26m tonnes of plastic packaging waste. Almost 39% was claimed to have been recycled, well above the current [...]
